We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
AGNES REPPLIERreal letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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